09-27-2007 04:18 AM
get well fast CC.
in the mean time, here is one:
Voodoo Enronomics |
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Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
Communism: You have two cows. You must take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
Enron Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt-equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred through an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The Enron annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more |
09-27-2007 04:58 AM
09-27-2007 07:16 AM
That is so well explained.. LOL!! 😄
Gabi1 wrote:
Enron Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt-equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred through an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The Enron annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more
09-27-2007 07:36 AM - edited 09-27-2007 07:36 AM
Let's see if I can adapt an old one for our use.
A retired LabVIEW programmer (is there such a thing?) was contacted by their former emplyer to solve a problem. They indicated that price was not an issue and they just needed to get the problem solved.
They had attempted to clone an application the wire-worker had developed but were running into performance issues. The Wire-worker poked around in the code and put a check mark in a configuration box. The wire-worker said it should be just fine now and left.
The application ran wonderfully taking advantage of all processors and exhibited wonder responsiveness.
Latter the manager received an invoice from the wire-worker for $50,000 !
The manager was shocked and asked for an itemized invoice. The wire-worker complied with the following;
Set option --------------------------------------- $1
Knowing what re-entrancy is -------------- $49,999
Total --------------------------------------------- $50,000
Ben
Message Edited by Ben on 09-27-2007 07:37 AM
09-27-2007 07:51 AM
@Ben wrote:
Knowing what re-entrancy is -------------- $49,999
Then they run into memory issues and hired him again. This time he set shared clones reentrancy. (LV8.5) 😄
09-27-2007 08:41 AM
09-27-2007 08:57 AM
Well, it seems from what we've seen that these are 40 billable hours, one way or another. 🙂
@Phillip Brooks wrote:
By reading the release notes? That would take at least 40 hours!
09-28-2007 02:07 AM
...but not everyday is Sunday (italian proverb, to say that not all the time you can be so lucky ).
@altenbach wrote:
Well, it seems from what we've seen that these are 40 billable hours, one way or another. 🙂
09-28-2007 10:45 AM
CC:
Keep up the vigilance and hang in there buddy. We're pulling for you.
And here's a funny for you (and Graziano), how Italians tell time (to keep track of those billable hours). I'm mostly Italian myself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOWf8KujhJs
-AK2DM
10-01-2007 01:14 AM